The director of a new treatment facility for delinquent youths is thinking about using behavior modification as the chief method of changing behavior. Your advice to the new director might be the following: ____
a. "This form of treatment will be effective if it is skill-based, but maintaining behavior change requires help from peers and family."
b. "Behavior modification relies too much on rapport building and cognitive factors to be successful."
c. "Use behavior modification only if you can suppress the delinquent person's tendency to seek thrills."
d. "Behavior modification is much less effective than therapies where there is less control."
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